{"id":50478,"date":"2026-07-05T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/50478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:48:09","slug":"fires-ravage-france-spain-portugal-forests-as-europes-temperatures-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/50478\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires ravage France, Spain, Portugal forests as Europe\u2019s temperatures rise again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hundreds of firefighters battled forest infernos in France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday as temperatures rose again in heatwave-scarred Europe.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest wildfires have already devastated more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of land \u2013 twice the size of Manhattan \u2013 across the three countries where temperatures in some places were predicted to touch 40\u00b0C on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Authorities registered thousands of excess deaths during one of Europe\u2019s worst heatwaves in June, and with more extreme weather on the way, France\u2019s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has already expressed concern that the annual summer wildfire season had started a month early.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A fire near Spain\u2019s northeastern Costa Brava coast burned more than 2,200 hectares in two days and firefighters said their operation on Sunday would be \u201ccomplicated\u201d by rising temperatures and the many \u201csmoking hotspots\u201d within the fire\u2019s perimeter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Firefighters \u201cworked tirelessly throughout the night to consolidate the perimeter of the La Bisbal d\u2019Empord\u00e0 forest fire, which is now stabilised\u201d, said a Catalunya fire service statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A firefighting truck operates in a burned-out location near a residential area in Catalonia, Spain, on Sunday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a08732e3-c3aa-4a22-9cac-9223e81901c6_ed2458dc.jpg\" title=\"A firefighting truck operates in a burned-out location near a residential area in Catalonia, Spain, on Sunday. Photo: EPA\"\/>A firefighting truck operates in a burned-out location near a residential area in Catalonia, Spain, on Sunday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Catalunya regional government president Salvador Illa said that a man had been detained in connection with the fire which has badly hit the Gavarres protected natural area between Barcelona and the French border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of firefighters battled forest infernos in France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday as temperatures rose again in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22024,1527,92,2881,2047,22026,66,556,22023,22025,797,22027,866,22022,22028,17],"class_list":["post-50478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-anthoupoli","tag-associated-press","tag-barcelona","tag-belgium","tag-catalunya","tag-drome","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-galini","tag-gavarres","tag-greece","tag-hellenic-fire-service","tag-italy","tag-la-bisbal-demporda","tag-laurent-nunez","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}